Resisting James Bond
Power and Privilege in the Daniel Craig Era
Published on 13. July 2023
Book
Hardback
198 pages
978-1-5013-8826-2 (ISBN)
Description
Beginning with Casino Royale (2006) and ending with No Time to Die (2021), the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films coincides with the rise of various justice movements challenging deeply entrenched systems of inequality and oppression, ranging from sexism, racism, and immigration to 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice and climate change. While focus is often placed on individual actions and institutional policies and practices, it is important to recognize the role that culture plays within these systems. Mainstream film is not simply 'mindless' entertainment but a key part of a global cultural industry that naturalizes and normalizes power structures.
Engaging with these issues, Resisting James Bond is a multidisciplinary collection that explores inequality and oppression in the world of 007 through a range of critical and theoretical approaches. The chapters explore the embodiment and disembodiment of power and privilege across the formal, narrative, cultural and geopolitical elements that define the revisionist-reversionist world of Daniel Craig's Bond.
Engaging with these issues, Resisting James Bond is a multidisciplinary collection that explores inequality and oppression in the world of 007 through a range of critical and theoretical approaches. The chapters explore the embodiment and disembodiment of power and privilege across the formal, narrative, cultural and geopolitical elements that define the revisionist-reversionist world of Daniel Craig's Bond.
Reviews / Votes
An interrogative, urgent edition to the expanding field of Bond scholarship, Lisa Funnell and Christoph Lindner's Resisting James Bond takes the Daniel Craig oeuvre as a whole and offers an overarching yet thoroughly comprehensive take on the actor's five-film tenure vis a vis a number of original and inventive chapter topics. A rare scholarly treat. * Ian Kinane, General Editor, International Journal of James Bond Studies, University of Roehampton, UK * This is a thought-provoking collection which, in challenging the identification of mainstream cinema with mindless entertainment, delves deep into the problematic representation of social injustice and oppression within the longest franchise in film history. Re-assessing James Bond's Craig era against the global rise of social and political unrest of the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the collection's interdisciplinary essays interrogate the power structures embodied by the world's most iconic fictional secret agent at a crucial moment in the 007 series. * Monica Germana, Reader in Gothic and Contemporary Studies at the University of Westminster, UK *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
28 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5013-8826-2 (9781501388262)
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E-Book
06/2023
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Persons
Lisa Funnell is Associate Dean of Creative Industries at Mohawk College, Canada.
Christoph Lindner is Professor of Urban Studies at University College London, UK.
Christoph Lindner is Professor of Urban Studies at University College London, UK.
Content
List of Figures
Foreword: Bond is Dead. Long Live 007.
Marwan M. Kraidy (Northwestern University Qatar)
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Resisting James Bond in the Daniel Craig Era
Lisa Funnell (Mohawk College, Canada) and Christoph Lindner (University College London, UK)
Part 1: Embodiment
1. James Bond, Environmental Injustice, and "Slow Violence" in the Craig Era
Tatiana Konrad (University of Vienna, Austria)
2. "Do You Expect Me to Talk?": Bond the Torture Critic
Ron E. Hassner (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
3. The Thrusting Tip of the Spy Business: Discovering Resistance in the Modern Moneypennys
Colin Burnett (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
4. Highland Rape: Scotland's Traumatic Past in Skyfall
Mary M. Burke (University of Connecticut, USA)
5. "Do You Consider Your Employment to be Psychologically Stressful?": Gender, Trauma, and Resilience in Daniel Craig's James Bond
Bridget E. Keown (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Part 2: Disembodiment
6. For Your Servers Only: Surveillance and Infonationalism in Craig-era Bond
Kathryn Hendrickson (University of Michigan, USA) and John Brick (Marquette University, USA)
7. Specters of Capitalism: Globalization in the Craig-Era Bond Films
Milo Sweedler (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
8. Bond, Race and Coloniality: No Time to Die(versify)...
Harshad Keval (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)
9. License to Urbicide: Defusing Bond's Acts of Terrorism for a New Era
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Afterword: 007 and Ableism
Dr Lisa Funnell (Mohawk College, Canada)
Contributor List
Index
Foreword: Bond is Dead. Long Live 007.
Marwan M. Kraidy (Northwestern University Qatar)
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Resisting James Bond in the Daniel Craig Era
Lisa Funnell (Mohawk College, Canada) and Christoph Lindner (University College London, UK)
Part 1: Embodiment
1. James Bond, Environmental Injustice, and "Slow Violence" in the Craig Era
Tatiana Konrad (University of Vienna, Austria)
2. "Do You Expect Me to Talk?": Bond the Torture Critic
Ron E. Hassner (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
3. The Thrusting Tip of the Spy Business: Discovering Resistance in the Modern Moneypennys
Colin Burnett (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
4. Highland Rape: Scotland's Traumatic Past in Skyfall
Mary M. Burke (University of Connecticut, USA)
5. "Do You Consider Your Employment to be Psychologically Stressful?": Gender, Trauma, and Resilience in Daniel Craig's James Bond
Bridget E. Keown (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Part 2: Disembodiment
6. For Your Servers Only: Surveillance and Infonationalism in Craig-era Bond
Kathryn Hendrickson (University of Michigan, USA) and John Brick (Marquette University, USA)
7. Specters of Capitalism: Globalization in the Craig-Era Bond Films
Milo Sweedler (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
8. Bond, Race and Coloniality: No Time to Die(versify)...
Harshad Keval (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)
9. License to Urbicide: Defusing Bond's Acts of Terrorism for a New Era
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Afterword: 007 and Ableism
Dr Lisa Funnell (Mohawk College, Canada)
Contributor List
Index